Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...September. "The mandate idea has become so popular that even here in democratic America we are beginning to talk about it, but "if it be applied to Mexico it means that a control of Mexican affairs must be exercised against the will of an established Mexican, government. ... 'A policeman's life is not a happy one.* I believe a League of American Nations, conceived in the right spirit, will do great good. If it means Pan-Americanism, as that term is usually conceived-I want none of it. If it be conceived in a spirit of responsibility...
leaned forward from the back seat of his Lincoln limousine, which had been halted in Matawan, N. J., by Policeman Sproul, to answer the policeman's question. Certainly, replied Mr. Rockefeller, the officer might stand on his runningboard and his chauffeur ("Phillips") might overtake a speeder the officer desired to apprehend. Mr. Rockefeller sank back again into the cushions, peered out at a mile of landscape which slipped by in about one minute, watched the officer hand their quarry a summons, handed the officer five new dimes...
...Bremen, Germany, one Paul de Bay donned a burly green coat, shiny boots, a broad leather belt, a two-edged sabre. Anyone, thought Paul de Bay surveying himself before a mirror, would mistake him for a policeman. Smiling, he sauntered into the street...
...Flaherty, willing to comply with the customs of a strange land, gave the policeman 8% schillings, received a receipt, and then vented his feelings by throwing the receipt upon the pavement...
Scandalized, the policeman exacted for this "second offense" a fine of 17 schillings, plus 35 schillings more for "insulting the police...